daniellevass · July 29, 2016 22:40 · Jul 28, 2016 · Jul 28, 2016 · Jul 28, 2016
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 3. I had problem trying to get the serial port to read correctly, can’t remember which magical incantation i had to do, but it was on the punchthrough forums,  i can go back and look if you need it.
 
+> http://beantalk.punchthrough.com/t/heres-how-to-access-bean-serial-data-in-processing/751 this may have been it, but i'm pretty sure the npm package below fixed it too, might be useful if the npm package doesn't work.
+
 4. Arduino Script - you need to make sure the board is setup to be a LightBlue Bean
 
 Info on how to get all the values etc are from here - https://punchthrough.com/bean/guides/features/temperature/

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 #Punch through bean info
 
+1. download the arduino program to write arduino code - https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
 
+2. download whichever bits on here you need https://punchthrough.com/bean/guides/everything-else/downloads/
 
+3. I had problem trying to get the serial port to read correctly, can’t remember which magical incantation i had to do, but it was on the punchthrough forums,  i can go back and look if you need it.
 
-4. Arduino Script
+4. Arduino Script - you need to make sure the board is setup to be a LightBlue Bean
 
 Info on how to get all the values etc are from here - https://punchthrough.com/bean/guides/features/temperature/
 

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+#Punch through bean info
+
+
+
+
+4. Arduino Script
+
+Info on how to get all the values etc are from here - https://punchthrough.com/bean/guides/features/temperature/
+
+```
+
+void setup() {
+Serial.begin(9600); // initialize serial
+}
+
+void loop() {
+    float currTemp = Bean.getTemperature();
+    Serial.println(currTemp);
+    Bean.sleep(10000);
+}
+```
+
+5. NodeJS Script
+(need to install moment + serialport)
+
+```js
+var serialport = require("serialport");
+var SerialPort = serialport.SerialPort;
+var fs = require('fs');
+var moment = require('moment');
+
+
+var port = new SerialPort('/dev/tty.LightBlue-Bean', {
+  baudrate: 9600,
+  parser: serialport.parsers.readline('\r\n')
+});
+
+port.on('open', function () {
+    console.log('open!');
+});
+
+port.on('error', function (err) {
+    console.log('error ' + err);
+});
+
+
+port.on('data', function (data) {
+  console.log('Data: ' + data);
+  var output = "" + moment().toISOString() + "," + data + "\n";
+  var fileName = moment().format('dddd-DD-MMM');
+  var filePath = fileName + ".csv" ;
+
+  fs.appendFile(filePath, output, function(err) {
+      if(err) {
+          return console.log(err);
+      }
+  });
+
+});
+
+```